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A lot of vlang-related statistics are very suspicious, probably some of the metrics are boosted by a click farm or something similar. For example, 99% of the gl

A lot of vlang-related statistics are very suspicious, probably some of the metrics are boosted by a click farm or something similar. For example, 99% of the global google searches about "vlang" are from Beijing. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=Vlang&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

baranul 3y ago
Was curious, so checked up. V has Chinese contributors[2] and who have also translated their documentation from English to Chinese[1]. As was mentioned, other languages have Chinese followings too. [1] https://www.bookstack.cn/search/result?wd=Vlang https://www.bookstack.cn/search/result?wd=Vlang [2] https://lydiandylin.gitbook.io/ https://lydiandylin.gitbook.io/
alwayslikethis 3y ago
This makes very little sense to me. Keep in mind that Google is blocked in China, and has been for a long time, except maybe specific special machines from the government that may have unlimited access. Even if there is a lot of search interest from people using VPNs, it shouldn't show up as China.
bigjads 3y ago
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arp242 3y ago
"golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=golang&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... So I'm not sure if that's evidence of metric boosting by a click farm, or anything else. Clicking on the question mark, it looks like it's not really a ranking of "where do searches come from", but rather "how popular is it in this region": > Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
- avgcorrection 3y ago
  > "golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q= https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... But Go is a working programming language.

baranul 3y ago

Was curious, so checked up. V has Chinese contributors[2] and who have also translated their documentation from English to Chinese[1]. As was mentioned, other languages have Chinese followings too. [1] https://www.bookstack.cn/search/result?wd=Vlang https://www.bookstack.cn/search/result?wd=Vlang [2] https://lydiandylin.gitbook.io/ https://lydiandylin.gitbook.io/

alwayslikethis 3y ago

This makes very little sense to me. Keep in mind that Google is blocked in China, and has been for a long time, except maybe specific special machines from the government that may have unlimited access. Even if there is a lot of search interest from people using VPNs, it shouldn't show up as China.

bigjads 3y ago

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arp242 3y ago

"golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=golang&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... So I'm not sure if that's evidence of metric boosting by a click farm, or anything else. Clicking on the question mark, it looks like it's not really a ranking of "where do searches come from", but rather "how popular is it in this region": > Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.

avgcorrection 3y ago
> "golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q= https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... But Go is a working programming language.